nordschleife 1970 - I was minus 2 years old!

Scary stuff. Lots of people being thrown out but everyone seamed to walk away. Don't know how as no one appeared to have seat belts on and they all had passengers.
 
Might have to lower mine a little more then, still got a couple of inches between the sump and ground.
 
I can remember also reading that the way tyres use to be made, made it easier for a car to roll, something to do with the way the sidewalls were built. I can't remember the in's and outs though.
 
smileyinside said:
For anyone who's been round the Ring this may be entertaining albeit long. I think at 43seconds there is a blue S30, but I am looking at it on a small phone screen!...
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I'm pretty sure that car is an Opel GT. By the way in 1970 I was 18 and rallying a standard Hillman Imp with consequences just like those sequences. It was a different world back then - it's frightening to think about it now.
 
Rob
First time I navigated was in a Hillman Imp, frosty November night, guy stuck it in the hedge 400 yds from start, we continued with spots looking for low flying Jumbo jets :)

I think the video is from the Open Day they used to have, which is why there is such a mixture of machinery, ofcourse nowadays you can turn up several days a week. All shot at Adenauer Forst, I believe.
 
I went about two weeks ago in my MX5 and had a spin at this very corner!

Watching this makes you realise how far suspension/safety has come on in the last 40 years!
 
s2k_adz said:
I went about two weeks ago in my MX5 and had a spin at this very corner!

Watching this makes you realise how far suspension/safety has come on in the last 40 years!
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Most definitely! Modern cars are designed to understeer or even oversteer, but the snap oversteer and flip in those clips is shocking! Starting to rethink the MK1 escorts :eek: rollcage, buckets and harnesses should help safety wise.
 
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